Leave it to Microsoft to inflate artificially the demand and hype surrounding the Xbox 360. A company with their kind of resources should have been able to easily meet demand on launch day. It's all a publicity stunt and gimmick for the "gimme now!" generation. People are going nuts trying to get one and Microsoft could have easily made it so that every household had one. But that's the way they operate I guess. It all comes down to the bottom line; the almighty dollar. And if they can think of a way to increase the demand for the product, then they'll make more money once they make the REAL shipment of Xbox 360's. Kudos to their marketing department. Their idea was a smashing success, unfortunately. In other news, there have been reports about defective Xbox 360 units. Apparently it's not widespread, but it is true. I contacted my local Gamestop to see if they had any returns on defective units and they said they had one returned so far out of their initial shipment. I have no idea how many units they got in on launch day. But I live in a fairly small city and this is a fairly small Gamestop, so ONE defective unit from that store is one TOO MANY IMHO. But ah, what can a guy do? I guess I'll just purchase my preorder if it ever shows up and hope and pray I don't have any issues. The other news is that many Xbox 1 games are NOT backwards compatible. This is a disgrace. I was merrily looking forward to replacing my old clunker Xbox 1 with a shiny new 360, but it looks like for the time being I'm gonna have to keep them both hooked up to my poor TV that looks like its on life support as it is with my PS2 and Gamecube in addition to the Xbox. So, that will be interesting. According to the word on the street, MS is going to issue some sort of patch or update to customers in batches to get Xbox 1 games to run correctly on the system, so all hope is not lost, its just going to take some time. I just wish they got it right the FIRST time. *sigh*